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Each product on Amazon.com is given a unique ASIN. For books with a 10-digit International Standard Book Number (ISBN), the ASIN and the ISBN are the same. [3] The Kindle edition of a book will not use its ISBN as the ASIN, although the electronic version of a book may have its own ISBN.
The ISBN may have been incorrectly labelled invalid, but we have (to our surprise) found several examples where the publisher has put an invalid number on the book (see talk page for examples). Note that just because a number has not been identified as invalid, it doesn't mean it corresponds to the book in question, or indeed any book.
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. [a] [b] Publishers purchase or receive ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency. [2] A different ISBN is assigned to each separate edition and variation of a publication, but not to a simple reprinting of an ...
Also, note that a registered ISBN, even one which appears with a corresponding book page on a major book distributor database such as Amazon.com, is not definite proof that such a book exists. The ISBN is assigned before the book is actually produced, so the publisher can advertise it – but not all such plans come to fruition, any more than ...
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
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OTOH, contributors with an ISBN from the book in their hand may feel obligated to add the ISBN to the article. Perhaps we could create a template {{Invalid ISBN|2-204-19850-9}} that results in <!-- Invalid ISBN: 2-204-19850-9 -->. Would that cause google searchs for the invalid ISBN to bring up the article?
ISBN example (book) 0 English Language area ISBN 0-330-28498-3 Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Pan Books (1984) 1 English Language area ISBN 1-58182-008-9 James Reasoner, Manassas, Cumberland House (1999) 2 French Language area ISBN 2-226-05257-7 Bernard Werber, Les Fourmis, Albin Michel (1991) 3 German Language area